MY IDEAL CITY FORMA URBIS FUTURA Università Iuav di Venezia

MY IDEAL CITY
FORMA URBIS FUTURA
COMPETITION FOR A VIDEO PRODUCTION
Università Iuav di Venezia
(SBD - Videoteca di Ateneo) (www.iuav.it),
in collaboration with:
Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali, Trento
(www.mtsn.tn.it),
Experimentarium, Copenhagen
(www.experimentarium.dk),
Bloomfield Science Museum, Jerusalem
(www.mada.org.il),
Pavilhao de Conhecimento, Ciencia Viva,
Lisboa (www.pavconhecimento.pt),
Hangar Design Group, Treviso-Milano
-New York-Shanghai-Barcelona (www.hangar.it),
Associazione Archinet, Venezia-Bologna
-Parma (archinet.iuav.it),
in relation to the European Project
“My Ideal City” (“The M.I.C. - My Ideal
City project has received funding from the
European Community’s Seventh Framework
Programme, under grant agreement
n°230554”, www.myidealcity.eu)
If for all the cities we can state that the
image of the existing city is an unstable
composition of overlapped images of many
different cities as they appear to different
groups of citizens and users, we can think
that the new generations’ eyes – which are
less influenced by stereotypical visions
- can be special and privileged observers
of the material and immaterial processes
which prepare or anticipate the actual
future city transformation.
launches a video production competition
on the interpretation of the future townscape
of the four cities of Trento, Copenhagen,
Jerusalem, Lisbon, open to young artists and
students of all Europe and Israel.
We ask the participants to produce short
videos (max 5 minutes each) in terms of
a documentary or a narrative or fiction
film (or as an intertwined composition of
these forms), describing or foreseeing the
actual transformations, with the maximum
freedom to compose real and invented
film sequences and images, repertory film
sequences and images, virtual and digital
animations. The creative choice is free,
except for the constraint to maintain a strict
relationship between the personal original
interpretation of the future urban forms and
the actual reality and the image of the city
directly experienced.
THEME
VIDEO FEATURES
The competition aims to obtain videos
able to provoke within the spectators
the development of critical and creative
consciousness regarding the shape and
image of these four cities, inviting them
to discover and imagine their possible
and desirable future changes.
The videos must have a maximum duration of
5 minutes. They must be either file.mov or .avi
(DVD format). The image format must be 16:9.
The work must be an original production,
but it can embody repertory films up to 1/3
of the overall duration, respectful of the
Intellectual Property Rights of the original
producers. The sound track too must be
respectful of the Intellectual Property Rights
of the original producers.
The participants (students or amateurs,
less than 31 years old) are invited to envision
the future of one of the four mentioned
cities, imagining a desired future city starting
from the positive or negative factors they
acknowledge in the current city.
Written and spoken texts must be normally
in English. Yet it is allowed to use the own language of each city represented (Italian, Danish,
Hebraic, Portuguese) with English subtitles.
ENROLMENT, DEADLINE, DELIVERY
INSTRUCTIONS
The video must be uploaded to a specific
on-line repository on Vimeo (http://vimeo.com)
by June 20th 2010. A DVD copy must
be sent to the Competition Secretary
(Università Iuav di Venezia, Videoteca
di Ateneo, Santa Croce 197, 30135 Venezia,
Italy) by the same deadline, together with
the attached enrolment form and a photocopy
of an identity document of the author
confirming her/his age. The participation
is strictly individual.
All the participants must be under 31 years old.
The video’s sent copies will not be returned
to the authors.
The promoters are allowed to display the
work on the website, at exhibitions and during
conferences related to the M.I.C. Project.
The work should be released to the promoters
under a Creative Commons Licence
(www.creativecommons.org).
JURY
The first phase of judgement will be held
by four different juries which have the task
to select the best 5 entries regarding each
city (Trento, Copenhagen, Jerusalem, Lisbon).
The four local juries will be composed of
three scholars, representatives of the local
science museum (MIC partner) and the
local Universities.
The local juries will work on-line, with the
coordination of the Competition Secretary.
The 20 selected entries will be judged
by a final jury of 5 members, chosen among
Iuav professors, film directors, cinema critics
and a representative of the Hangar Design
Group: this jury will decide one first prize
and at least three acknowledgements,
one for each city.
PRIZES
For each city (Trento, Copenhagen, Jerusalem,
Lisbon) 5 videos will be selected and published
on the MIC website and will be projected
in the MIC exhibitions and conferences.
Within each city group, a winner will be
chosen: the prize for these 4 winners will
be a journey to visit the exhibition in one
of the four cities.
The prizes are offered by
Archinet Association (archinet.iuav.it),
Italian partner of URBADOC
(www.urbadoc.com), a major European
resource bringing together hundreds
of thousands of references to documents,
magazines and reviews, relating
to architecture, landscape, environmental
and building design, urban and regional
planning, from key European database
producers. Search it in your university library.
To the best work’s author the MIC partners
will offer – as a first prize – the commission
to produce a trailer on the MIC project in
view of the final conference 2011.
CURATORS AND SECRETARY
The competition’s curators are the Iuav
professors Renato Bocchi, Leonardo Ciacci,
Emanuele Garbin.
The Secretary of the competition is:
Videoteca di ateneo, Università Iuav di
Venezia, Santa Croce 191, 30135 Venezia
– Italy (Antonella Scarpa, Angela Colonna,
Alessandra Libardo, Dario Trabucco).
Any questions about the competition can be
sent to the following e-mail: [email protected].